Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-10-07
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

| A movement is on foot for the es-
tablishment of another lodge of Odd
Fellows in Walla Walla.
THE annual session of the Grand
Lodge I. o. o. F., of Idaho, will begin
in Boise City October 11th.
Judge Bucey's new paper, the North
'eost Hsrtics.ls"ral;ot, will be issued in
Tacoma about October 1st.
At st. Mary's hospital, Walla Walla,
recently, tumor weighing GO pounds
was successfully removed from Mrs.
d. Reavis.
During the past year the various
postoffices in Washington Territory
issued money orders aggregating $685.
O3O Sc.
The postoffice at Orting, including
all the stamps and furniture, was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of the
11th inst.
Eight prisoners from King county
arrived at the Territorial prison last
week, one being woman. over so
years OF age, for robbery.
Two steamboats, are being built at
Tacoma for the upper Columbia. They
will be connected in sections and sent
to their destination by rail.
Twenty-eight individuals have sub
scribed $2l 900 to the capital stock of
the Bellingham Bay Railway and Navi-
cation Company. This is short of
the subsidy required.
John Gates, Mayor Of Portland, has
resigned his position as Chief Engineer
of the river department of the o. II. &
N. Co. He has ably filled the posi-
ton for over twenty years.
DR.. ID. Scott, prominent physician
of Spokane Falls, committed suicide,
! on the 18th ultimo, with aconite.
Broken down health and financial en-
barrassment were the cause.
S. C. Herren, of Winlock, is author
ity for the statement that project
is seriously considered to build a rail
road from Winlock up the Cowlitz
Valley to the foot OF the mountains.
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The Mason County Journal says a
large clam cannery is about to be es-
tablished in that county. Big Shook
UNI is great place for CLAIMS and
would furnish the supply Of the BIZ
valves for large cannery.
Some II years ago two infant child
rem of ]. P. Judson, after their death,
were buried at Port Townsend. Last
week by order of the father, they
were disinterred and their remains were
taken to Tacoma for re-burial.
John Rigging, one of the guards at
the penitentiary, has resigned for the
reason that he objects to doing duty
on Sunday. John is right. Such con-
scientiousness should not be al
lowed to pine behind prison bars.
Captain J. c. Britain has chartered
his steamer Phantom to the San Juan
Oil Company to haul their drag net.
The Company will take her for one
month on trial and if she proves
successful they will keep her right
along.
There were shipped from Tacoma
Tuesday eighty pounds of assorted fruit,
consigned to c. S. Fee, general passen-
ger agent of the Northern Pacific rail-
road at Minneapolis. The fruit was
raised on the farm of Frank Alling.
1t will be exhibited at the Minneapolis
Industrial exhibition now being held
in that city.
At last Toledo's new school-house is
finished, and when the new seats are
put in, will be one of the most COM
plete educational institutions in the
county. The building is 24x60 feet,
sixteen foot ceiling, plastered and
hard finished, is we'll lighted, has
plenty of blackboard room, and in
fact is in every way adapted to the
purpose for which it was built.-Pilot.
Post-Intelligencer: Captain Green is
now at his old post of duty, master OF
the Geo. E. Starr. Captain Anderson
is on the Hayward, and Captain G. H.
Parker is laying off until October LIST,
when he will resume his old position
as mate on the Hayward. He is next
in line of promotion and, unless all
signs fail, will be in command of one
! of the Oregon Railway & Navigation
company's steamers soon.
Seattle Press: The interest in this
neck of woods about the election for
directors of the Northern Pacific is
only surpassed by that of the Puget
Sound colony at Port Angeles. 1t is
no secret that unless the present man.
ager, George Venable Smith, the
brother of Budd Smith, is kicked out,
a hegira will take place unequaled
since the Mormon exodus from
NauvoO.
| Chief Justice Jones has now set
October 9th next as date ON which he
will hear argument on the motion by
United States Attorney White for
temporary restraining order in the
suits brought against parties running
sawmills along the Cascade division Of